Clarian Nursing

Last week, Methodist had an employee celebration and silent auction to really begin the Christmas season. To put it succinctly, it was a blast! Over the course of eight hours, employees from all over the hospital made their way down to the conference center to eat breakfast and lunch, listen to a live band, and walk around looking at over 200 items to bid on. The silent auction was held to begin the events for our new capital campaign, which will help fund our new critical care tower, to be built over the next five years. 21st century medicine cannot be practiced in patient rooms designed even 10 years ago. Critical care requires more space for each room. Today’s improved patient care is a result of more highly skilled professionals, more sophisticated equipment, more intense treatments and better pharmaceuticals. Critical care patients often require all of these – in the same room at the same time. Additional space also reduces the risk for and spread of infection, and provides greater privacy and comfort for seriously ill patients and their families. Upon the tower’s completion, all critical care beds will be single patient rooms. So the beauty of this day was the employees received a fun day, while the campaign got off to a terrific start!

The “early present” for me was the time spent greeting, laughing and visiting with all of the “friends” who came down to see us. It is just amazing how a little music, food, and the company of others can liven up a day, and put everyone in a great mood. We had a representative from an outside company there, who at one point genuinely said to me, “I go to a lot of hospitals. It is amazing that a hospital as large as this one can have people that know each other so well and treat each other like family that are so happy to see each other.” And she was right. I told her it is why people stay here so long, because it is just like a family, we take care of each other, and have genuine affection for each other. She said that was very easy to see. We listened, as the time for the auction neared its conclusion, to a few mild threats about the items up for bid, from one good-natured employee to another. That was half the fun, too. Those of us working for the day did not mind at all, because the reward was making people happy. It truly was a gift.

Tracy

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